Frances Bodomo

Nuotama Frances Bodomo (born 1988) is a Ghanaian filmmaker, writer and director. Her work features "doppelgangers, imaginary friends, ventriloquist dummies, and the un-institutionalized ... who constantly break society's view of itself." 2Biography and career Born in Ghana, to parents who who were both educators, Bodomo lived in Norway and Hong Kong, before moving to New York to study film at Columbia University (BA) and NYU's Tisch Film School (MFA). Her first film, Boneshaker (2013), starring Oscar nominee Quvenzhané Wallis, premiered at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival before playing at SXSW, Pan African Film Festival, and Lincoln Center's African Film Festival. Her film Afronauts (2014) had its US premiere at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival, its international premiere at the 2014 Berlin International Film Festival, and was included in the exhibition "Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art, 1905–2016" at the Whitney Museum of American Art.She was named one of Filmmaker' magazine's "25 New Faces in Independent Film" in 2014. She is based in New York City. She most recently directed the short segment "Everybody Dies!" for the omnibus feature Collective: Unconscious (2016), which premiered at the 2016 SXSW Film Festival. It won Best Experimental Short at the 2016 BlackStar Film Festival. In Film Quarterly, Vol. 71, Number 2, in a Black Film dossier titled "Death Grips," by Michael Boyce Gillespie, Bodomo explains her 2016 film segment Everybody Dies!, "I was being asked to make a dream film and I was having a lot of nightmares surrounding police violence and those were the images in my min